Paratroopers from kibbutzim danced with yeshiva buchers as they stood in awe before the remnant of the Second Temple.
Behind his desk, there is a large photomontage of the Second Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
But with courage and resolve, the Second Temple reestablished the Jewish presence.
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But as the bloggers Yisrael Medad and Elli Fischer pointed out, it is a Jewish irrigation system from the Second Temple period.
There, the Islamic Wakf not only incites for jihad with impunity, it is also systematically destroying the remains of the Second Temple with impunity.
Among his architectural achievements were lavish desert palaces, fortresses and temples, as well as the expansion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, his most famous project.
Here was corroboration of one of the best-known stories in the Hebrew Bible, the liberation by Cyrus of the Jews deported to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar and their return to Jerusalem to build the Second Temple.
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In Jerusalem, he used 10, 000 workers to construct the Roman world's largest religious center, the renovated Second Temple, a campus whose great size is vividly conveyed through a mural that depicts its main plaza's depth and its colonnades' height, dwarfing the people under them.
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And from this direct line of suffering, one can begin to understand not only the continuity of the form of Jewish suffering - but the continuity the persecution of the Jews over the course of the long exile that began in 70 CE with the destruction of the Second Temple.
Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.
In rural Mississippi, he found Pentecostal Christians who are breeding red heifers for sacrifice in Israel, when (perhaps next year) the second coming reclaims Jerusalem's Temple Mount from Muslims.
More than 3, 000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nil, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of the rock.
His visit in September 2000 to a holy site in Jerusalem -- known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount -- set off clashes between Palestinians and Israelis that developed into the Second Intifada, or uprising.
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